[P]roca : rex : Albanorum : Amulium
Subtitle: et Numitore[m] filios habuit ...
Publisher: Sixtus Ruesinger
Published: 1470
Place of publication: Rome
Language: lat
Number of pages: 84
Subjects: Biography; History
Other titles: Proca: rex: Albanorum: Amulium: et Numitorem filios habuit; Roca: rex: Albanorum: Amulium: et Numitore filios habuit; Proca rex Albanorvm Amvlivm et Numitorem filios habuit; De viris illustribus
Work titles: De viris illustribus urbis Romae
Notes: Has been attributed to Pliny the Younger, but generally attributed to S. Aurelius Victor beginning in the sixteenth century. Cf. ISTC.

Title from beginning of text (leaf 1/2r).

Place of publication and date from ISTC. Place of publication also assigned to Naples, and date to ca. 1467-1468; cf. ISTC.

Colophon (leaf 4/8r): Sexti Ruffi: Viri Cousularis Valentiano Augusto de historia: Ro: Libellus finit: Sixtus. Ruesinger.

Signatures: [1¹² 2-4¹⁰]; 1/1, 3/6, 4/9, 4/10 blank.

Initial spaces.

Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 2135

Proctor, R. Index to the early printed books in the British Museum, 6672

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, A-1383

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, volume 4, page 27 (IA. 17433).

Incunabula short title catalogue ia01383000

Catalogue of the fifteenth-century printed books in the Harvard University Library, 1319

Ownership notation erased from 1/2r; some contemporary MS annotations in Latin (barely visible due to washing); from the library of the 3rd Earl of Sunderland, with shelfmarks: C6:7 (in ink); 58.a17 (in pencil).

Most capital spaces have ms. guide letters, and most are filled in, in red or blue ink.

Large initial P with marginal extension illuminated in gold and colors on 1/2r, with unidentified coat of arms in lower margin, but most of the color washed away; initials elsewhere, some with marginal extensions, added in red or blue.

In this copy the first work has a caption added in red: "Cai plinij Oratoris Veronei: De Viris Illustribus: Libellus Foeliciter Incipit"; the second work has a caption added in red: "Sextus Rufus Vir consularis Valentiano Augusto Historia Romana".

Offsetting of another red caption, apparently for a different work, on 4/12v, indicating that, at the time of rubrication, this work was bound with at least one other work.

Imperfect, lacks leaf 1/1 (blank), leaves 1/12, 3/2, 3/4, 3/6-3/7, 3/9, and all of sig.4; leaves 3/10 and 3/8 (the only leaves from "Sextus Rufus's Breviarium rerum gestarum populi Romani) incorrectly bound after 3/1 and 3/3 respectively; 8 x 5 cm. sheet of paper, with ms. note, inserted in book at time of cataloging, removed to Bibliographical File.

Bound in 19th-century sheep, gilt; blank leaf 1/1 wanting.

Bound in later vellum, with flaps extended at the fore-edge.
Table of contents: title: De viris illustribus urbis Romae (1/2r-3/5v); title: Breviarium rerum gestarum populi Romani (3/7r-4/8r).